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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hanson , Alexander Contee 1786 - (search)
Hanson, Alexander Contee 1786-
Editor; born in Maryland, Feb. 27, 1786.
While editor of the Federal Republican, in Baltimore, he denounced the administration, and a mob destroyed his printing-office.
June 22, 1812.
The journal was re-established, and a second mob attacked the building.
July 28. One of the mob was killed and several were wounded.
As the result of a parley Hanson and his party, including Gen. Henry Lee. Gen. James M. Lingan, and some twenty-five others, surrendered on (condition that the property was to be protected, and that they be sent to jail as a precaution against further attacks of the mob. Faith was not kept with Hanson, and the mob attacked the jail, killed General Lingan, seriously wounded General Lee, and left Hanson and others for dead in front of the building.
In 1813 Hanson was elected to Congress.
and in 1817 to the United States Senate.
He died April 23. 1819.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harmar , Josiah 1753 -1813 (search)
Harmar, Josiah 1753-1813
Military officer; born in Philadelphia in 1753; was educated chiefly in the school of Robert Proud, the Quaker and historian; entered the army as captain of a Pennsylvania regiment in 1776; was its lieutenant-colonel in 1777; and served faithfully through the war in the North and the South.
Made brevet colonel in the United States army in September, 1783, he was sent to France in 1784 with the ratification of the definitive treaty of peace.
He was made Indian agent for the territory northwest of the Ohio, and in 1787 Congress made him a brevet brigadier-general.
On Sept. 29, 1789, he was appointed commander-inchief of the army of the United States, and had charge of an expedition against the Miami Indians in the fall of 1790, but was defeated.
Harmar resigned his commission in January, 1792, and was made adjutant-general of Pennsylvania in 1793, in which post he was active in furnishing Pennsylvania troops for Wayne's campaign in 1793-94.
He died in
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harrison , William Henry 1773 -1812 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hartley , David 1729 -1813 (search)
Hartley, David 1729-1813
Politician; born in England in 1729; educated at Oxford, he became a member of Parliament, in which he was always distinguished by liberal views.
He opposed the American war, and was appointed one of the British commissioners to treat for peace with Franklin at Paris.
He was one of the first advocates in the House of Commons for the abolition of the slave-trade, and was an ingenious inventor.
He died in Bath, England, Dec. 19, 1813.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Havre de Grace
Havre de Grace, attack on.
In 1813 Havre de Grace was a small village 2 miles above the head of Chesapeake Bay, and near the mouth of the Susquehanna River, containing about sixty houses, mostly built of wood.
It was on the postroad between Philadelphia and Baltimore, as it now is upon the railway between the two cities.
On the night of May 2, 1813, Sir George Cockburn, commander of a British squadron, engaged in marauding on the shores of Chesapeake Bay, approached the village, and at dawn on the morning of the 3d the inhabitants were awakened by the sound of arms.
Fifteen
Village of Haverhill, scene of the massacre. or twenty barges, filled with armed men, were seen approaching, when a few lingering militia opened heavy guns upon them from a battery on an eminence called Point Comfort.
These were answered by grape-shot from the British.
The drums in the village beat to arms.
The affrighted inhabitants, half-dressed, rushed to the streets, the non-combatants flying in
Hawes, Joel 1789-1867
Clergyman; born in Medway, Mass., Dec. 22, 1789; graduated at Brown College in 1813; was pastor of the First Congregational Church in Hartford, Conn., for more than forty years. He published Tribute to the memory of the Pilgrims; Memoir of Normand Smith; Washington and Jay, etc. He died in Gilead.
Conn., June 5, 1867.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Headley , Joel Tyler 1813 -1897 (search)
Headley, Joel Tyler 1813-1897
Author; born in Walton, N. Y., Dec. 30, 1813; graduated at Union College in 1839; later took up literary work.
His publications include Washington and his Generals; Life of Washington; Chaplains of the Revolution; The Great rebellion; Grant and Sherman, their campaigns and Generals; Farragut and our naval commanders, etc. He died in Newburg, N. Y., Jan. 16, 1897.
Hillabee towns, the
In 1813 there was an existing jealousy between the west Tennessee troops, under Generals Jackson and Coffee, and the east Tennessee troops, under Generals Cooke and White, both intent upon punishing the Creeks.
After the battle of Talladega (q. v.), the Hillabee Creeks were disposed to peace, and offered to make terms with Jackson.
He cordially responded, and preparations were made for the transaction.
Meanwhile Generals Cocke and White, ignorant of this measure, came down upon the Hillabees, and spread destruction in their path.
Ockfuskee and Genalga, two deserted villages—one of thirty and the other of ninety houses— were laid in ashes; and on the morning of Nov. 18, the troops appeared before the principal town.
The inhabitants were unsuspicious of danger, and made no resistance; yet General White, for the purpose of inspiring terror in the minds of the Creek nation, fell furiously upon the non-resistants, and murdered no less than sixty warriors.
Th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Holley , Orville Luther 1791 -1861 (search)
Holley, Orville Luther 1791-1861
Editor; born in Salisbury, Conn., May 19, 1791; graduated at Harvard in 1813; studied law and practised in Hudson, Canandaigua, and New York City.
He was editor of the Anti-Masonic magazine, Troy Sentinel, the Ontario repository, the Albany Daily Advertiser, and the State register; was surveyor-general of the State in 1838; and author of Description of the City of New York; and Life of Franklin.
He died in Albany, N. Y., March 25, 1861.
Houston, Samuel -1863
Statesman; born near Lexington, Va., March 2, 1793.
His family went to Tennessee, in his early days, where the Cherokee Indians adopted him as one of their nation.
He served with distinction under Jackson in the Creek War, in 1813-14, and was severely wounded.
Leaving the army in 1818, he became a lawyer, and was a member of Congress from 1823 to 1827.
He was governor of Tennessee in 1827, and afterwards lived among the Cherokees, as their legal protector from fraud.
Emigrating to Texas, he took a leading part in its public af-. fairs.
Instrumental in achieving its independence (1836), he was elected its first
Samuel Houston. President that year; also from 1841 to 1844.
He favored the annexation of Texas to the United States, and was elected its first United States Senator in 1846.
In that station he remained until 1859, when he was chosen governor of Texas.
He opposed the secession and insurrectionary movements in that State with all his might,